1 “ As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

Y TU levanta endecha sobre los príncipes de Israel.

2 a nd say, ‘ What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She lay down among young lions, She reared her cubs.

Y dirás: ­Cómo se echó entre los leones tu madre la leona! entre los leoncillos crió sus cachorros.

3 ‘ When she brought up one of her cubs, He became a lion, And he learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

E hizo subir uno de sus cachorros: vino á ser leoncillo, y aprendió á prender presa, y á devorar hombres.

4 ‘ Then nations heard about him; He was captured in their pit, And they brought him with hooks To the land of Egypt.

Y las gentes oyeron de él: fué tomado con el lazo de ellas, y lleváronlo con grillos á la tierra de Egipto.

5 ‘ When she saw, as she waited, That her hope was lost, She took another of her cubs And made him a young lion.

Y viendo ella que había esperado mucho tiempo, y que se perdía su esperanza, tomó otro de sus cachorros, y púsolo por leoncillo.

6 ‘ And he walked about among the lions; He became a young lion, He learned to tear his prey; He devoured men.

Y él andaba entre los leones; hízose leoncillo, aprendió á hacer presa, devoró hombres.

7 ‘ He destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

Y conoció sus viudas, y asoló sus ciudades; y la tierra fué asolada, y su abundancia, á la voz de su bramido.

8 ‘ Then nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

Y dieron sobre él las gentes de las provincias de su alrededor, y extendieron sobre él su red; fué preso en su hoyo.

9 ‘ They put him in a cage with hooks And brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.

Y pusiéronlo en cárcel con cadenas, y lleváronlo al rey de Babilonia; metiéronlo en fortalezas, para que su voz no se oyese más sobre los montes de Israel.

10 ‘ Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.

Tu madre fué como una vid en tu sangre, plantada junto á las aguas, haciendo fruto y echando vástagos á causa de las muchas aguas.

11 ‘ And it had strong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its height was raised above the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

Y ella tuvo varas fuertes para cetros de señores; y levantóse su estatura por encima entre las ramas, y fué vista en su altura, y con la multitud de sus sarmientos.

12 ‘ But it was plucked up in fury; It was cast down to the ground; And the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branch was torn off So that it withered; The fire consumed it.

Empero fué arrancada con ira, derribada en tierra, y viento solano secó su fruto; fueron quebradas y secáronse sus varas fuertes; consumiólas el fuego.

13 ‘ And now it is planted in the wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.

Y ahora está plantada en el desierto, en tierra de sequedad y de aridez.

14 ‘ And fire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter to rule.’” This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

Y ha salido fuego de la vara de sus ramos, ha consumido su fruto, y no ha quedado en ella vara fuerte, cetro para enseñorear. Endecha es esta, y de endecha servirá.